A. Personal & Family Collection

Classification

Identifier: A

Staff Only

The Family and Personal Collection offer sources for the study of a variety of topics such as agriculture, economic conditions, the Civil War, the role of Texan women, and family history in Texas history. Such collections contain diaries, letters, land records, memoirs, and other papers collected by, and centered on, an individual or successive generations of a family. Among the collections is material from Karle Wilson Baker, Stephen F. Austin, Archie P. McDonald, and local NAACP leader Arthur Weaver. These collections document the social, cultural and economic history of East Texas from European colonialism to the present day and provide a view into southern culture and life.

Found in 371 Collections and/or Records:

Lelia Berryman Crain Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0276

Dates: 1860-1924; Event: Donated 10/4/2011; Event: Addendum donated 2/19/2020

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lelia Berryman Crain Collection

Lemuel Brown Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0231

Scope and Contents

Doctor's account book listing patients' names or relation to head of household and sometimes type of treatment or prescription with costs. Patients were from Nacogdoches and San Augustine counties.

Dates: 1837-1841

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lemuel Brown Collection

Lenvill B. Martin Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0283

Content Description This collection has of minutes, programs, maps, and photographs pertaining to Nacogdoches County schools in the mid twentieth-century. There are also promissory notes, tax receipts, deeds, and receipt books for Lenvill B. Martin and his ancestors. Materials of particular interest to researchers might include: - Four oversize maps from c.1970 showing how Lenvill Martin, who was superintendent, planned the desegregation of Nacogdoches' schools (See Bundles 2-3). - Minutes and...

Dates: Event: Donated 8/9/2011

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lenvill B. Martin Collection

Lester C. Harling Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0104

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a typed manuscript on the causes of World War I by Prof. Harling, newspaper clippings, and some honorary materials, including a certificate signed by Gov. Allan Shivers and Secretary of State John Ben Shepperd making Harling an Honorary Admiral in the Texas Navy. There is a mock-court martial from Harling's veterans association in Leon Springs protesting Harling's "fraudulent enlistment in the Navy" while still a PFC in the U. S. Army. There is also information on...

Dates: 1927-1977

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lester C. Harling Papers

Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences

Collection

Identifier: A-0060

Scope and Contents This collection contains the reminiscences of Levi Ashcroft (Ashcraft) during the turbulent years from 1838-1855 in Louisiana and East Texas. Ashcroft's reminiscences begin with an account of abuses of the legal system arising from the influx of lawless characters into the Neutral Ground between Texas and Louisiana. He writes of the murder of Joseph G. Goodbread by Charles W. Jackson, who, upon being acquitted of the murder, formed the band of Regulators to suppress crime. When the...

Dates: 1835-1855; Event: Donated in 1925; Event: Addendum donated in 1943

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences

Lewis Moore Land Grant

Collection

Identifier: A-0230

Scope and Contents

1852 land grant for Grayson County.

Dates: 1852

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lewis Moore Land Grant

Lisenbee Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0083

Scope and Contents

This collection is a miscellanous assortment of items connected to the Lisenbee family: an envelope, some Confederate stamps, a receipt, field notes, and several certificates.

Dates: 1845-1867; Event: Donated in 1934

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lisenbee Collection

Lita Mayberry Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0259

Scope and Contents The collection includes photographs collected during Mrs. Lita Mayberry's years as a school teacher and of her family life. Many of the earlier pictures are in the form of postcards. Subjects include students, family, and friends, many of whom are unnamed. Mayberry taught at least at Centerville, Hudson Grade, Hudson Elementary, Herty School, East Ward School, and Kurth Elementary School. In looking at the series of photographs, one sees the progression of time in clothing, quality of...

Dates: 1912-1961; Event: Donated in 2009

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lita Mayberry Collection

Loftin-Brooks Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0322

Scope and Contents These documents note the progression of land sales within one family from the time of the mid-1820s under the Mexican Government, to the Republic of Texas, the State of Texas, through to World War I. This collection provides an overview about the value and social status of owning land and the careful recording of the land sales in county records. Prominent Texas personages include Peter Ellis Bean, Henry Raguet, Thomas Rusk, Hayden H. Edwards, and Jose Mariana Acosta, governor of Coahuila...

Dates: Event: Donated 2/13/2018

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Loftin-Brooks Family Collection

Lois Foster Blount Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0107

Scope and Contents The Lois Foster Blount Papers consist mostly of historical research materials with an emphasis on early Texas history, the Texas Revolution, and the Republic of Texas. About a fourth of the collection pertains to Thomas J. Rusk. Included are correspondence, biographical and genealogical materials, notes and excerpts from manuscript and printed sources, calendars and translations of some Bexar and Nacogdoches Archives. Also included are copies of legal papers and land papers, manuscripts of...

Dates: 221 BCE-1980; Event: Donated in 1982

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lois Foster Blount Papers

Louise Spies Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0336

Content Description

The collection consists of several letters to Louise Spies and graduation cards.

Dates: 1929-1933

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Louise Spies Letters

Loulein Harris Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0111

Scope and Contents

These papers, comprising mostly biographical news clippings and correspondence with Texas libraries, were transferred from an ETRC vertical file.

Dates: 1927-1938

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Loulein Harris Papers

Luther Swift Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0279

Scope and Contents

Legal documents pertaining to Nacogdoches area land transactions make up the bulk of this collection, though there is also some correspondence, an insurance policy for the Swift Bros. livery barn, and a map of land off Bois d'Arc Street.

Dates: 1900-1956

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Luther Swift Collection

Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0005

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, field notes, deeds, receipts, contracts, and promissory notes of Barret. Includes material on the Angelina River clearance and the Confederacy and Reconstruction, the personal papers of T. Jeff and Amanda Johnson and business records of the Melrose Petroleum Oil Company (1845-1914).

Dates: 1836-1966; Event: Donated in 1966

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers

Madison G. Whitaker Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0045

Scope and Contents

Included in these papers are deeds, survey plats, indentures, field notes, land grants, receipts, promissory notes, a limited amount of personal and business correspondence, and estate papers of Madison G. Whitaker. Also included are some genealogical materials on the Fitts and Whitaker families.

Dates: 1839-1915

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Madison G. Whitaker Papers

Margaret Dallum Howell Hollon Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0318

Content Description

Genealogical and Historical Research

Dates: Event: Donated 12/4/2007

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Margaret Dallum Howell Hollon Collection

Marguerite Crouse Bezanson World War II Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0149

Scope and Contents

The collection consists chiefly of special orders relating to the military service and career of Bezanson, most of which were issued at the Nacogdoches Army Administration School.

Dates: 1936-1946; Event: Donated in 1986

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marguerite Crouse Bezanson World War II Collection

Marian Justus Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0288

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of the Justus family and its ancestors. These photographs range from an early 1870s tin type to color photographs of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These photographs include mostly posed portraits, but also have some candid photos. Most of the subjects are couples or families, but there are some school and other individual photographs.

Dates: Event: Donated 7/8/2013; Event: Addendum donated 09/25/2013

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marian Justus Collection

Marigold Creamery Records

Collection

Identifier: A-0193

Scope and Contents

An account ledger for Nacogdoches business Marigold Creamery and a Nacogdoches County Resolution honoring H. H. Cooper.

Dates: 1913-1917, 1934

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marigold Creamery Records

Marion Wall Lowery WWII Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0151

Scope and Contents The collection consists of an unofficial history of the Aero Medical Center entitled Report From Heidelberg, a transcript, "Opening statement for the United States against Karl Brandt, et al", articles from The Stars and Stripes, and articles from the magazine, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine. Also part of the collection are two books by Eric Sloane, Gremlin Americanus, and ...

Dates: 1946-1947, 1983

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marion Wall Lowery WWII Collection